Moose: a big animal that is mean if you get in its way... think Chris Pronger.

As long as they don't use another force of nature, because with the recent weather they've had, the Winnipeg Flood, or Manitoba Rain must have come up in somebody's mind.

And, no names you can turn into verbs or bad puns, the commentators will beat them to death like they do now:

"Atlanta really handed out a thrashing!""The Flames got doused.""Its worse than the Gulf Coast for Edmonton on the ice tonight""Watch out, its hurricane season in Carolina""The Predators finally caught their prey""The opposing team is stepping into some dangerous, shark-infested waters tonight in San Jose""It was a Wild game in Minnesota""No Kings will be crowned in LA this year""The Coyotes will live to howl another year"

but wait, there's more:

"Ottawa just couldn't reform the other team tonight" (double points if you got that one!)"The Colorado goalie is really facing an Avalanche of shots""We've got a Blackhawk down!""The Wings are really flying""Buffalo got their swords crossed on that play!""The Stars have really lined up for Dallas tonight""New Jersey is playing a Devil of a game""Anaheim has all their ducks in a row for the offseason""The Philadelphia defenseman took a flyer on that play""The Penguins players were really waddling to the bench on that play, costing them a Too Many Meny On The Ice Penalty""The Capitals really punctuated that beautiful passing sequence with goal!""St. Louis will be playing the Blues this offseason""The New York goalie is really one man on an Island with the way his defense is playing"

I think I missed Boston, NYR, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver

Guest9672 ( )

Posted - 05/25/2011 : 13:11:23

It's now official. Winnipeg will get the Trasher. Don,t have the link yet, just saw it on TV

Earlier today, we, along with our partners, signed an asset purchase agreement to sell the Atlanta Thrashers to True North Sports and Entertainment. If ratified by the NHL, Commissioner Bettman and the league's Board of Governors, this will result in the relocation of the Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg, Canada beginning with the 2011-2012 season.

It's extremely disappointing to all of us that it became necessary after all other options were exhausted. We want to express my gratitude to you, the fans, for the years of dedication you have offered to the Atlanta Thrashers.

As many of you know, for some time we have been seeking a buyer for the team or a partner willing to join with us in continuing to fund the team. We hired an investment banking firm to seek out potential investors with the express goal of finding someone who would keep the team here in Atlanta. In recent months, we openly indicated a growing urgency to secure assistance in off-setting our operating losses in hopes that our public plea would produce investors which, to that point, had eluded us.

After extensive effort, nobody has come forward. As a result, we had no choice but to explore the investment option presented to us by the NHL in the form of True North Sports and Entertainment.

Relocation of the Thrashers is not the outcome that any of us ultimately wanted. We knew when we purchased the club in 2004, that professional sports teams are seldom, if ever, money-making investments but rather vital community assets. We believed in the overall impact that the team had on the sports landscape of Atlanta, and over the past seven years, invested a significant amount of money into what we felt was an integral piece of the greater metropolitan Atlanta area. We are truly grateful to have been a part of this city's professional hockey history, to have made an indelible impact on the community through our players' outreach, our organization's activities and our foundation's donations, and most of all, to have been a part of paying tribute to you, our fans, each and every time our team stepped on the ice.

Thank you for the opportunity to be entertained, thrilled and inspired alongside you by Atlanta Thrashers hockey. None of this would have been possible without your support.